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Markarian's Chain, Georg G Albrecht
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Markarian's Chain

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Markarian's Chain

Revision title: Markarian's Chain - Revisited

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The Markarian's chain is part of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster in the constellation Virgo. It's position is almost centered in between Virgo's star Videmiatrix and Leo's star Denebola
It's main galaxies are (right to left) M 84, M 86 flanked by NGC 4402 and 4388, the Eyes NGC 4435 and 4438, followed by NGC 4458 and 4461 and ending with NGC 4473 and 4477. At 7 o'clock in the image M 87 can be seen.

This group has  a distance to us of between 48 and 59 million light years.

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Title: Markarian's Chain - Revisited

Description: After M81/82 came out nicely in the reprocessing, I thought I could improve this image as well...
Processed all in PixInsight from stacking to the end. Used GHS, BXT, NXT and SXT

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Markarian's Chain, Georg G Albrecht